COMMONWEALTH v. LAO

SJC-10700.

460 Mass. 12 (2011)

COMMONWEALTH v. AGAPITO LAO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 13, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart T. Graham, Jr. , for the defendant.

Paul B. Linn , Assistant District Attorney ( Mark T. Lee , Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, BOTSFORD, GANTS, & DUFFLY, JJ.


SPINA, J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of the deliberately premeditated murder of his estranged wife in May, 2000. He asserts error in (1) the admission of evidence of a conversation between the victim and their daughter that supplied motive for the murder; (2) the denial of his motion for a mistrial arising out of a witness's unanticipated change in her testimony, and the disclosure of the defendant's previous trial1 during...

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